Voyage Pittoresque De La Syrie?

There is still, of course, for the full Middle Eastern experience… Israel. Ancient churches and monasteries, ancient Biblical sacred sites (e.g. Mount Carmel, and Elijah’s caves), camels, belly-dancers, luscious food from every cuisine in the entire ‘middle east’ from Algeria to Iran because of all those Jews who fled and were driven home to Israel bringing their family recipes with them, date palms, glorious mediterranean beaches, Crusader castles, Roman ruins, Masada, desert oases with waterfalls…All enclosed and protected by that thin ring of tempered steel that is the IDF. Anyone who is willing to allow love to cast out fear, and wishes to let the Israelis know that they are loved and supported, and wishes to show that in a concrete fashion, by spending tourist dollars – that will help that thin ring of steel sustain itself – can take a calculated risk and travel to Israel, taking care if at all possible to fly El Al, which these days should be – on all those routes where it is available – *the* airline of choice for the discerning Infidel traveller who wishes to have the best possible chance of arriving alive and unexploded at one’s destination. If one is really brave and wishes to make a stand, one could find out when the next group of intrepid Jews intends to ascend the Mount, and go along with them, as a Righteous Gentile, to help swell the numbers and make a point – a pointed point – to the swarm of arrogant Muslim squatters who go out of their minds when they see a large group of confident Jews asserting Native Title rights. During the ‘suicide bomber intifada’ as it was called, the Israelis were inexpressibly helped and heartened by those very brave persons – whether Jew or Gentile – who deliberately chose to visit Israel, during that time, as tourists. To spend money and share the risk. Encourage the front line troops of the Camp of the Infidels: visit Israel.